Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.